Opening: Thu, 06.06.2024, 7pm
Artists: Oska Gutheil, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Hannah Neckel, Maruša Sagadin, Molly Soda and Anna Witt
Guest curator: Nora Mayr

Identity crises, hormonal rollercoasters, bottomless despair, and excessive euphoria: guest curator Nora Mayr’s exhibition All the feels! invites us on a journey through the emotional worlds of teenage years. The invited local and international artists focus on the fragile moments of growing up: the tensions, transitions, and crises between vulnerability and boldness, isolation and belonging, the arduous search for your Self and conformity.

At the same time, the exhibition explores the political charge of these threshold experiences in adolescence. Historically, the “youth” has always been a driving force behind progressive social change. Even today, in times of climate crisis, wars, and socio-political conflicts, it is primarily people between 15 and 24 who insist that a different world is possible – from K-Pop fans sabotaging Donald Trump’s election campaign to the actions of the Last Generation.

All the feels! spotlights the emotional states of the teenage years: a phase of life in which everything seems possible, prescribed private and political structures are put to the test, and the pragmatism of the adult world has not yet crept into our minds.

Nora Mayr is a freelance curator, lecturer at the Node Center for Curatorial Studies, and since 2022 part of the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her curatorial work focuses on formats outside of traditional exhibition spaces and frameworks, experiments with scenographies, and visual storytelling methods. Projects in recent years include: Honeymoon (Viborg Kunsthal), I dreamed I was a house (Casino – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg), and Fake It Till You Make It (MeetFactory, Prague) as well as RADICAL CARE (co-curated with Stephanie Winter), Wandertag, and Bussi aus Wien (co-curated with Julischka Stengele), all in Vienna. Nora Mayr is co-founder of the Project Space Festival Berlin since 2014, was a co-director of the Berlin art space insitu from 2012 to 2017, and coordinator of the International Studio Programme at Künstlerhaus Bethanien between 2010 and 2013.